Sources told Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke that Austin Powers 4 will be a tribute to Myers' own father. "It's very personal with a father and son theme loosely based on his own life." Somehow this translates into a movie about supervillain Dr. Evil and his son Scott, played by Seth Green. Myers is cowriting it with Baby Mama's Mike McCullers, who also cowrote the second and third Austins.

I loved the first Powers and found the second a dull retread, and I didn't even bother to watch the third. I do remember some fun sequences where the Evils go on a talk show together, and Seth Green is always fun to watch. And maybe the only way to make a fourth Austin Powers movie interesting would be to have Austin himself be a minor character in the film. But still... I'm not convinced there's any good reason for a fourth outing, other than Mike Myers' career troubles. [Deadline Hollywood Daily]